No. 48. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



November 12th, 1907. 



F. DuCake Godmait, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, 

 August, September, and October, 1907. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, Superintendent of the Gardens, exhibited 

 photographs of a hybrid between the European and African Wild 

 Cats {Felis sijlvestris and F. ocreata). 



Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited on behalf of the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.Z.S., the skins and horns of a male 

 and female Takin from Bhutan, differing from the typical Mishmi 

 form by their much smaller horns. 



Mr. E. S. Goodrich, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a communica- 

 tion, illustrated by diagrams, '^ On the Scales of Fishes," in which 

 he called attention to differences in the structure of these organs 

 and to their importance in classification. 



A paper was read by Messrs, Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., 

 and R. 0. Wroughton, F.Z.S., on Mammals collected at Beira by 

 Mr. C. H. B. Grant, being No. YIII. of the series of papers on 

 the Rudd Exploration of South Africa. Twenty-eight species 

 were included in the collection, represented by 127 specimens, all, 

 as before, presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. D. Rudd. 



The region not having been previously worked, the series was 

 of much interest from a geographical point of view. 



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